The day after Alan Colmes passed away following a brief battle with lymphoma, Isaac Chotiner wrote a vile piece for Slate titled: “Alan Colmes, Buffoon and Patsy, Was Fox News’ Original Liberal Weakling.”
Colmes was the most absurd, useless, and mocked television personality in America for many years, precisely because he was nice. In the context of Fox News, being a nice guy—and a “liberal” nice guy at that—meant being a buffoon, and a patsy. Colmes not only played the part to perfection—he defined it…
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